Fragile Quotes

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

That's why this is so heartbreaking for people. Experience doesn't make people invincible. It just demonstrates how fragile humans are.

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

I think language does bring us together. Fragile and misleading as it is, it's the best communication we've got, and poetry is language at its most intense and potentially fulfilling. Poems do bring people together.

Being young as a politician means being energetic. But it can also mean that the politician is immature or fragile.

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

I think that most artists are leaning towards fragile idiots.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

These 20,000 police will be guarding spots in the capital that we think are fragile and sensitive. They must not sleep tonight.

Instead of stabilizing places like Iraq, international efforts to centralize power are creating a more fragile security environment than ever before.

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Initially the rain will exacerbate an already fragile situation.